America's twin Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity have far exceeded everyone's expectations for them. Read the full story.

The game began like most: frenzied trading for resources, roads hastily built toward valued cashes, towns and cities rising to dominate the forests and plains around them.

And the barbarians attacked, razing all but one city and sending the island of Catan to a post-apocalyptic Stone Age it would take years (or a half-dozen turns or so) to recover from. Eventually the mighty herds of evolved sheep rose up and founded a new empire of Sheeple, caring deep within in their wood-obsessed minds a healthy respect for the barbarians looming over the horizon.

I am shocked, shocked, that men and women might use the Internet in different ways. Read the full story.

How the Dover School District's intelligent design lawsuit demonstrated the religious basis of the anti-evolution 'theory'. Read the full story.

The total number of satellites orbiting the distant gas giant stands at 27. Read the full story.

NASA's New Horizons space probe is gearing up for its eight-year trip to Pluto. Read the full story.

How jolly old Saint Nick won the War on Christmas. Read the full story.

You've got to love it when a minor lunchtime update turns into an evolving disaster that plunges ever deeper into the abyss of total chaos. That pretty much sums up my Nuketown Forum update yesterday, in which I thought I'd be clever and do a quick update while I had a few minutes, and succeeded in pretty much just destroying the entire thing.

Score one for the forces of science and reason. Read the full story.

The video game network (which, unfortunately, I do not get) is gunning for the right to air both the Original and Next Generation series of Star Trek. It's sad that I'm so burned out on Trek that I really don't care about this -- if I want to watch either I'll Netflix 'em, but for diehard Trekkers, I'm sure this is a big deal. Read the full story.